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Updated: June 16, 2025
This was the redstart, and the tree under which she sat was its singing-tree, to which it resorted many times a day to spend half an hour or so repeating its brief song at intervals of a few seconds a small song that was like the song of the redbreast, subdued, refined and spiritualised, as of a spirit that lived within the tree.
The profusion of birds here is one thing that strikes me as curious, coming from the vicinity of Philadelphia, where even the robin redbreast, held sacred by the humanity of all other Christian people, is not safe from the gunning prowess of the unlicensed sportsmen of your free country.
Be that as it may, poor little Redbreast fell a victim to her hunger, and yet she considered him but a very poor supper, after all. He was the best she could get that night, however; for the other birds proved too nimble for her: so, weary and hungry, puss climbed up her tree again, and was soon asleep for she was very tired indeed, with all she had done that day.
Does it require a great deal of gravity, mother? Here, Robin Redbreast, keep your beak out of my dish-pan." Minnie, in the mean time, had been seated on the table, directly in front of the dish-pan. Mrs. Ried looked around. "O Sadie! what possessed you to put her up there?" "To keep her out of mischief, mother.
Well, if it hadn't been for Robbie Redbreast who saw little Billy Bunny hopping away from the lily pond, as I told you in the last story, I never would have found out what he did after that, and so there would have been no story to-night. So the next time you see Robbie Redbreast, please thank him. And now this is what he told me.
They cried out in horror at the sight, and, rushing out of the hut, declared they would never see her any more. And the poor girl, with a heavy heart, took the body of the redbreast up to her husband. But directly she entered the room the man told her that he felt a great deal better, and that he would rather have a piece of bear's flesh, well boiled, than any bird, however tender.
It is a question that those, at any rate, who have seen the bird in countries where it is treated differently will have no difficulty whatever in answering. Broadly speaking, the redbreast has the best time of it in northern lands.
'We miss the grounds, and yes, we miss a good many things, said Jacinth simply. 'Then I hope that Robin Redbreast will make up to you for some of them, said Lady Myrtle. 'You know the name of my funny old house, I daresay? 'Oh yes, said Francis, who had just rejoined them with Eugene and Phebe, 'we heard it the very first day. And we've always thought it lovely both the house and the name.
This is not a robin, nor does it seem to be nearly related to the familiar redbreast; Pekin- or China-robin is merely the name the dealers give it, because a great many specimens are imported from China. Its classical name is Liothrix lutea. Oates calls it the red-billed liothrix. It is a bird about the size of a sparrow.
The new owner enlarged and improved it, and built the high wall which now looked so venerable; for already this was many, many years ago. The present owner of Robin Redbreast was the daughter of this gentleman or nobleman rather and she had lived in it ever since the death of her husband, fully twenty years ago. She was an old woman now. Her name was Lady Myrtle Goodacre.
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